More EQ Doodling

It can be fun to play with with blocks by adding a few lines in EQ – no one says you actually have to make them but if you do want to make this block you can download the templates for 6 inch and 9 inch blocks here. As we have looked at the Big and Little Trees block earlier I have been playing with this one – just one result today but you can play along by drawing lines on the block to colour included in the download earlier in the month.

This is just a simple alteration as I have just drawn a couple of diagonal lines across the big tree and straight ones across the little tree. I could have done it the other way about or done both the same but I thought I would leave those to your imagination or let you try it on paper.

You can use both the blocks in a quilt or in a table runner – it can be effective to flip a block or two as well.

I have a new computer and thus a new download of EQ and haven’t yet played with the settings – the black ‘seam’ lines look quite heavy in this mock-up and have made the block look like stained glass, so there’s another idea for you!

Another new pattern

It may be a long time until December but those red and green festive prints are going to start arriving in the shops very soon! So I have just added a new pattern to the Payhip shop (it used to be on Craftsy (RIP) but the new site – Bluprint – has removed it along with most of my other patterns).

I have (with the usual imagination) named it Poinsettias. It is a small wall-hanging or table topper, measuring 32 inches square when finished.

 

The pattern also includes instructions to turn the blocks into a table runner instead of a table topper.

Or you could go mad and make a full size festive quilt.

Whichever you choose those little flowers are a great way to use up your red scraps!

Free pattern for Christmas

Yes, we know its still August (just) but the Christmas fabrics are in the shops and we’ve still got some bits left over from last year but the new ones are very tempting . . . !

So to help you use up those left over pieces we’ve re-jigged a pattern written for Young Quilters by Dianne Clarke more years ago than any of us would like to think about. Sufficient to say that most of those Young Quilters are now adults, many with potential Young Quilters of their own.

Christmas bells can be hung from the tree, turned into garlands (there’s some lovely Christmas ribbons out already to thread them on) or just added to wreaths and other decorations as an extra ‘garnish’!

Download the pattern here – Christmas Bells

Quick and Easy Christmas Runner

This pattern really is easy – and quick. It was taught as part of a Beginners Patchwork class at The Corner Patch last Christmas and there has been much demand for a repeat class and/or the pattern. So (‘by popular demand’) it is now available on the Christmas Patterns page of the website.

Here are a few snapshots of some of the ‘finishes’ by the end of the workshop. They are bit blurry as it was hard to get anyone to stay still long enough to take a photo.

No pressure then – if this is what complete beginners can achieve in a 10 – 4 workshop, you have plenty of time to make several. The pattern also includes instructions for matching table mats.